Education September 1930

Women's emancipation and the emancipation of the child therefore go hand in hand." He concluded:— " The general pedagogical development has through the interest in self-activity of the work schools changed from the interest in study matter to the interest of the new education in the child itself. [...] Elizabeth Rotten a most impressive and inspiring personality who is the Director of the New Education Fellowship in German-speaking countries addressed the Conference on " Fitting the Curriculum to the Changing Times ". In the course of her'lecture she remarked :- " The reforms for the most part are centred in the content of the curriculum; we must ensure opportunities for the child and the yo [...] University and other authorities should give careful consideration to the body of recent evidence indicating the unreliability for determining intellectual fitness of the traditional examination alone and the desirability of the candidate's ability to profit by university study such as the judgment of the teachers and the record of school work. [...] Oskar Pfister of Zurich speaking of the The Significance of the Unconscious in the Development of the Individual " showed us how Psycho-Analysis has given us entirely new insight into the spiritual development of a human being and emphasised the value of the teachers' application of the principles of Psycho-Analysis. [...] In the course of his lecture he said :— " One of the aims of New Education is the capture of the spirit displayed in Games in order to utilise it in the school room and in cosequence the study of the " Day Dream " regarded as a document in which the spirit of games is remarked is of great importance.